yvonne fly onakeme etaghene

yvonne fly onakeme etaghene (Resident Playwright): I'm a taurean mango-eating, Nigerian & syracuse, new york raised, part time vegetarian, hard core carnivore, b-girl-in-training, river-goddess-worshipping, raw corn on the cob eating, mac & cheese from scratch making, bottom of the pot licking, fierce fire breathing, fuschia-colored poem writing, no bra wearing, frohawk rockin, all night dancing, bright color lovin, never a lesbian, sometimes queer, always a dyke POET. I am also a dancer, essayist, playwright, actress, cook and crochet clothing designer who has self-published three collections of poetry, released one CD and organized two independent, national poetry tours. I have melted microphones in over 25 u.s. cities and am embarking on a world tour in spring 2007.


AUGUST 22-23rd, 2007:
LIKE WILDFIRE
by yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
Director: Gloria Bigelow
@ South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Fort Greene, BK


If compassion became a contagious disease, what would it look like? Poet, performance activist & playwright yvonne fly onakeme etaghene answers this question in a play that is a poetic exploration of humanity in a brutally apathetic world. These characters delve to the depths of love, activism & madness, and must face their fears to survive & thrive: com/passionately.

Gloria Bigelow is a New York Based Theatre Artist. A graduate of the University of Illinois with her MFA in acting she has also been a part of Lincoln Centers Directors Lab and NYU's First Look Theatre Company. Favorite directing credits include Marla's Devotion, Red Hen Theatre Company, a reading of And Her Hair Went With Her for Lincoln Center's Directors Lab and Word Becomes Flesh for New World Theatre and New York Dance Theatre which recieved favorable reviews in The New York Times. A graduate of Spelman College, Gloria has an ongoing commitment to working with directors of color and women. She is slated to co-create and direct a project with playwright Zina Camblin for Butler University in the fall called the Divinity of Women Project which focuses on women and spirituality. She is very excited to be working with Freedom Train Productions.

2007 Resident Playwrights

Jesse Cameron Alick
Andrea E. Davis
yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
Andre Lancaster
Nick Mwaluko